Chanakya was the chief advisor of Chandragupta Maurya. He is known for his eccentric ideas and practical thinking to tackle different situations in life. Today we use his ideas and tactics to judge different complex situations in our lives. 

1. He has suggested us to collect little bits of knowledge and make an ocean out of it. Our knowledge may seem to be little when we gather it but when we add all of it ,it will take the shape of an ocean. So we should never stop gathering knowledge. This is called the compound effect of gathering knowledge.
2. If we want to achieve success, we have to be uneasy and uncomfortable. We cannot be comfortably achieving success. We have to work hard and come out of our comfort zone.
3. Whatever knowledge we want to achieve we need to get it from the experts of those particular fields. Just consulting everyone for any particular type of problem cannot solve our issues. Moreover the wrong person consulted would increase our anxiety, so we need to consult the exact person who is an expert in that area.
4. We should rely on ourselves because we are destined to achieve everything by our own. We might take the help from others but we will reach our success by our own potential only.
5. It doesn't matter how big you are physically. Its your intelligence that counts. We have heard the tale of the ant and the Elephant, right?
6. use your common sense to solve your problem. Common sense is a very simple thing to speak about but we lack it in times of very simple problems also.
7. Never share or express your plans ands goals to others. This is the secret you must keep it to yourself. This might sound selfish, but it helps you to reach your target. And just making plans don't work out if you do not work on it.
8. Control people by knowing what is their motivation. If a person is greedy, control him by his motivation. Likewise try to find out that motivation of a person if you want to control that person.
9. Learn from others mistakes by seeing or observing them closely. This can be done by reading about people by gathering knowledge about peoples mistakes and success.
10. Above all, try to use your own experience and wisdom to make a way fort yourself. We might gather knowledge from different sources but we need to act according to our own vision and understanding.